Bacterial contamination of ready-to-eat foods: Concern for human toxicity

Reviews in Food and Nutrition Toxicity

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 143-171

  Fang, Tony J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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